I’m starting to attend Hackathons and I'm in great need of a way to either completely restore my PC to a previous point in time, or deploy something that allows me to test out different things on my ...

I am using VMWare Workstation 11 on Windows 8.1.
I have applications installed that only work on Windows 7.
I followed this tutorial to create a shortcut on my host PC that will automatically launch ...

I've been thinking about upgrading to Windows 8.1 but wanted to test it first in a virtual pc I made using Oracle VM VirtualBox. I downloaded the Windows 8.1 preview software and so far it works well.
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I usually use spice-client to connect to remote VMs without any problem.
Today during usual work my pc freezed (I am strong confident that this is not due to spice) and forced me to brute shutdown.
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VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1, VMnet8 and Bluetooth do not show up in Network Connection's. Only the Wireless Network Adapter is shown! What could be the reason for this?
Thank you for ...

I was wondering how I would go about running device firmware in a virtual machine on Windows 7 or some other way on windows 7. I am specifically thinking of running the Broadband-Hamnet firmware for ...

I'm using VirtualBox but cannot get a second monitor for my guest. Why not?
As you can see in the screenshot, the Win7 guest actually thinks it has two monitors, but there is no window for the second ...

I'm managing middle sized company database. Recently we have massive system upgrade and switched to virtual machine environment. After deployment, we are having performance issues, Apparently MS SQL ...

I have a server that has 2 (CPU) - 24 cores. Is there a limit how many VM's I can create and assign CPU's?
Ex: Is there a limit that, I can only create 6 VM's that have 4 CPUs each? or 12 VM's with 2 ...

I have a VMware guest (Ubuntu 14.04) on a Windows 7 host that has a host-only network adapter (the 192.168.59.xxx address range), and every time I reboot the machine, it gets a new IP address assigned ...

I've managed to paint myself into a corner. I have a ubuntu machine with a virtualbox windows VM on that I spend about 4hours working in each day. I read up online that having direct disk access for ...

I am using VirtualBox 4.3, I have installed Centos 6.3. I have two adapters attached.
1) NAT
2) Host-Only
I want to be able to setup a cluster of 3 machines which can talk to each other and also be ...

I want to make a home lab to test software that interacts with hundreds (maybe thousands?) of nodes, all Windows workstations. Each VM will be spun up for testing purposes, then destroyed. Do I need ...

I have a VMware Player VM located in a remote shared folder that resides on a Linux server. On the server side I have set up my file access permissions to the user ID used to open the shared folder, ...

I am running Windows 7 in a VM: The VM was setup using Hyper-V within Windows Server 2012 R2.
First, I configured the Linksys router Port Forwarding for TCP 3389 and 3390. To both IP addresses. I also ...

Does anyone know where I can get a windows 8.1 or 8 iso file? I want to get a virtual machine so I can mess with the settings for learning. If its on the Microsoft website, that would be preferred. I ...

I have remote access to a QEMU Windows Server 2012 (64 bit) VM with 12 cores @ 2.8 GHz ("QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.0.0") and 48 GB RAM. For a project I wanted to set up a Linux VM on VirtualBox on ...